Gregory Ponthiere Bücher

The book explores the absence of social insurance systems for early death in developed welfare states, highlighting a significant gap compared to protections against unemployment and disease. It critically examines how these societies fail to offer mechanisms that safeguard citizens from the financial and social impacts of premature mortality, challenging conventional views on welfare provisions and urging a reevaluation of social safety nets.

An introduction to the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. This non-technical introduction is accessible to undergraduate students in economics and other social sciences, and, as such, aims at becoming a building block for undergraduate courses about the economic history of societies.